https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Dads_photos0001-scaled.jpg https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ChatGPT-Image-Feb-21-2026-02_08_25-PM.png https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/grok-video-56ec11d3-b45d-47ab-8166-9baeac22ee77-mp4-image.jpg My Dad was out in the Northwest Frontier in WWI doing plate photography! I have just a few surviving images that were transferred to photographic paper as the hundreds of plates he had were all destroyed when … Continue reading
If you look on YouTube you will see a lot of recent hype on the progress in controlled nuclear fusion reactors. Without seeing progress I guess the funding would soon dry up, call me cynical. The first nuclear fusion experiment … Continue reading
I just saw an image of the Sombrero galaxy taken by Hubble on X. Prompted me to download the highest resolution image I could find and print it out at A1 size on the HP Designjet T230. Here is the … Continue reading
Why Life Appeared Early and Only Once: A Discussion This document explores the paradox of life’s early appearance on Earth and the absence of new life forms over the last 4 billion years, with a focus on the panspermia hypothesis … Continue reading
Imagine you are a photon. You suddenly come into existence, and without the passing of any time, and without travelling any distance, you suddenly disappear again. Did you even exist? Well you must have done because an astrophotographer on planet … Continue reading
This is everything I have on Markarian’s Chain from the original Hyperstar, the Hyperstar III, the Hyperstar 4, and the Sky90 array. Must be more than 20-hours in total, probably more than 30. So why doesn’t it look a lot … Continue reading
I have just seen a bunch of YouTube videos on this subject, and they are all pretty confusing and worse still, contradictory. The issue of sub-exposure time (and the number of subs) is something I have worked on with Noel … Continue reading
This morning I built up a switch box with 12V display meter to bolt onto the 12V 20A PSU for the dome rotator. All wired up – taken out to the observatory – connected up to the dome rotator black … Continue reading
This image of the Veil nebula in Cygnus incorporates all the data I have on the object. So this image includes Hyperstar III on the C11 data, Sky90 (2-frame mosaic including narrowband) data, and the Canon 200mm lenses with the … Continue reading
A starless Cygnus Wall region.
